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COVID-19 By The Numbers. My Takeaway For Supply Chain Leaders

Supply Chain Shaman

While Asian markets are struggling with the shifts in demand in Europe and North America, they have relative stability in their home markets. At the conclusion of World War II, at which time service industries accounted for 10% of nonfarm employment, compared with 38% for manufacturing. The net/net?

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What About Them Apples?

Supply Chain Shaman

I worked for a software company for almost a decade and implemented demand management solutions in the 1990s for multiple companies. At that time, the demand processes were largely regional. I also worked in manufacturing during the period of 1978-1992 trying to plan demand. Let me be transparent on mine.

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Elephant in the Room: Thoughts on Metrics That Matter in Semiconductor and Hard Disk Drives

Kinaxis

This could create a shortage in the US/Europe OEM chain. Of course, like any industry, Semiconductor and HDD manufactures are faced with a set of unique challenges in their space that puts their supply chain at risk. – as information moves down the supply chain to the manufacturer. Potential for Tightening Margins.

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Supply Chain as a Service (SCaaS): A Golden Opportunity for the Supply Chain Industry

SCMDOJO

SCaaS will guide companies to achieve strategic value by improving Manufacturing as a Service, Fulfillment as a Service, and Warehousing as a Service. Supply Chain as a Service (SCaaS) is a new approach to managing the complex process of getting products from manufacturers to consumers.

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Essilor – The secret of a global & robust S&OP process

DynaSys

This concept helps us to manage our end to end S&OP process. Each route starts with one of our 32 manufacturing plants where we produce either finished or semi-finished lenses. But the pandemic started to extend from China to Europe and later to the Americas. So what we transferred o Europe, we had to move it elsewhere.

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Supply Chain Case Study: the Executive's Guide

Supply Chain Opz

Manufacturing systems and regulatory compliance are considered to be very complex, coupled with the limited number suppliers due to the high barriers to entry. Moreover, the aircraft manufacturers have to do whatever it takes to win the order long before the commencement of production. Zara is very famous for its time based strategy.

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Will the Downturn Signal an Upturn?

Supply Chain Shaman

While traditional forecasting approaches use statistics to model history assuming that historic shipments and order patterns represent future market patterns, in the times of market volatility, especially for manufacturers two-five levels back in the supply chain, traditionally forecasting is not adequate. The hits keep on playing.